Chapter 8 - The Family Mission Is Complete, and the Clan Is Dead!

Chapter 8: The Family Mission Is Complete, and the Clan Is Dead!

Hearing Su Zhou’s domineering words, the members of the Su family who were in the midst of slaughter felt their hearts surge with delight.

The long-suppressed resentment built up over the years was completely swept away, and each one of them charged fearlessly at the Li family disciples.

Of course, it was called a “battle”, but in reality, the only reason these Li family disciples were still alive was because Su Zhou deliberately left them for his clansmen to vent their years of fury upon.

“Mercy and kindness are reserved for one’s own people… as for enemies—only slaughter awaits…”

Su Buku, listening to Su Zhou’s words just now, felt as if he had an epiphany from the heavens.

He twirled the broadsword in his hand and directly beheaded two enemies.

In truth, over these past few years, he had long realized something different about himself.

Whenever he faced combat or slaughter, he remained exceptionally calm— yet beneath that calmness was an endless thirst for bloodshed.

Every time he fought, he felt like a stranger to himself. In his eyes, the people he killed seemed like one delicious snack after another.

This feeling terrified him, especially because his cultivation would grow far faster during his killings.

But because of this, Su Buku had grown somewhat fearful.

He feared others discovering his secret— more so, he feared being labeled a demonic cultivator, which might implicate and drag down the entire family.

Unknowingly, Su Buku had placed an invisible shackle upon himself.

In fact, he had already reached the peak of the Qi Transformation Realm three years ago, but had always fallen just one step short of breaking through.

Just now, however, Su Zhou’s words awakened him.

With a Killing-Heart Bodhi Body, where good and evil intertwine, righteousness and wickedness become one— his killing intent directed at enemies, his bodhi compassion reserved for loved ones.

In that instant, Su Buku’s naturally kind temperament and his boundless bloodlust reached a subtle harmony.

His broadsword pierced through another enemy’s heart once more.

Suddenly, his entire aura changed— his internal blood and qi surged through the eight extraordinary meridians, followed by his true energy circulating throughout.

Su Buku had entered the Meridian Unblocking Realm!

Inside the house, Su Zhou noticed this change and cast a glance at his nephew.

[Ding!! Congratulations, Host. Su family member Su Buku has grasped the essence of slaughter.]

[Family Luck +100. Clan Leader receives bonus reward: Yellow-rank Low-grade Technique—Slaughtering Heaven Secret!]

[Slaughtering Heaven Secret: I cleave heaven and earth with a heart of slaughter, flooding the nine heavens in blood. Feed slaughter with slaughter— turn true energy into killing force. The more you kill, the stronger you become.]

[Note: This cultivation technique upgrades with the number of beings slain. It can be elevated up to Heaven-rank.]

“The more he kills, the stronger he becomes… it’s quite suited for Buku. His Killing-Heart Bodhi Body should align well with this technique.”

Su Zhou nodded with satisfaction. This system really was considerate.

Just moments ago, he had been wondering how to cultivate Su Buku, and now, the system had already delivered the perfect technique.

“Watching my Su family’s prodigy grow stronger, stepping through Li family blood… I wonder—what are you feeling now?”

“Li Ziwen, when I was in seclusion and you chose to be someone else’s dog, did you ever imagine this day would come?” Su Zhou spoke indifferently.

His foot was stepping on the face of a middle-aged man, forcing him to watch his family fall one by one.

“A wise bird chooses a good tree to roost in! What right or wrong is there?”⁶

“It’s just the law of winners and losers!!”

Li Ziwen squeezed out these words through gritted teeth.

Though the Li family was now completely finished, there was still a faint glimmer of fire in the depths of his eyes.

“I’ve borne the consequences… but my Li family isn’t finished yet!”

He kept repeating this phrase in his heart, as if it gave him boundless strength.

Su Zhou’s face showed a trace of curiosity, and he pressed his foot down harder— rubbing Li Ziwen’s face brutally against the ground.

Crack!!

The force was so great, it crushed his facial bones.

“AAAAHHHH!!” Li Ziwen let out a soul-wrenching scream.

Su Zhou, however, merely frowned. “Noisy.”

Then, with a subtle movement of his true essence, in an instant, Li Ziwen lost the ability to make sound— no matter how hard he screamed, no voice came out.

By now, the Li family’s main hall was a scene of corpses strewn everywhere.

The elders of the Li family lay discarded like trash.

Many of them hadn’t even been killed by Su Zhou, but by the Li family’s own retainers— hoping to bargain for their own lives, they had slaughtered their former masters.

“You still have hope in your eyes.”

“What is it that gives you hope?”

“Does your Li family have some hidden card left to play?”

“No, that’s not it. The Li family isn’t a branch of some great clan, and you don’t have any major backers. Yet you dared to obstruct me in reclaiming my property.”

“Your behavior… it’s as if you were begging me to vent my fury on you.”

“To give you peace in death… the Wang family may have courage, but lacks cunning. This reeks more of Ma Xiao’s methods.”

Su Zhou spoke with a casual tone, but the more he said, the more terrified Li Ziwen’s eyes became.

“Indeed—you all know me.”

“For your Li family to do this, you had to know I would take vengeance. But to rush forward like this to your deaths… What did the Ma family promise you?”

“Let me guess…”

Su Zhou’s foot twisted again on Li Ziwen’s face— yet more despairing than the pain was his next sentence.

“They promised to preserve a trace of your bloodline, didn’t they?”

Su Zhou suddenly squatted down, staring at the mangled face beneath his foot.

A gentle smile curled at the corner of his lips, but to Li Ziwen, it felt like falling straight into the abyss.

“All these petty schemes… I really can’t be bothered to guess anymore.”

“It doesn’t matter. No matter how many of your Li family they protect, from now on, Tianwu City needs only one voice.”

Su Zhou’s voice was like a freezing wind from the underworld, making Li Ziwen feel chilled to the bone.

The defiance in his eyes was completely extinguished.

At that moment, the slaughter of the Li family had come to an end.

The Su family disciples, though bathed in blood, had not suffered a single casualty.

They stood outside the hall, looking at Su Zhou with eyes full of reverence— as if they were gazing upon a deity.

“Pass down the order—any family associated with the Li family, leave not a single one untouched.”

“Anyone with Li family blood—kill without mercy.”

“As the saying goes: wildfire cannot destroy the grass; to eliminate weeds, one must dig out the roots!”⁷

Su Zhou gave the order softly, but the members of the Su family received it as divine command.

“As for Clan Leader Li…”

“Heh, such a ‘wise bird choosing a fine tree’, Take him to the dungeon.”

“Dying would be too easy— I want this bird to watch firsthand how the tree he chose… crumbles to dust.”

[Ding! Family Mission: Exterminate the Li Family — Completed!]